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Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now? | Human behaviour

expressisverbis — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:58:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?
Poster: expressisverbis
Post title: Human behaviour

If LSPs were graded on survival skills, I’d vote for psychology.
It seems like we’ll need buckets of it to deal with the translation world... and the world in general!

Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now? | Forestry

Lingua 5B — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:54:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?
Poster: Lingua 5B
Post title: Forestry

Forestry skills ain’t bad either.

Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now? | Other

Philip Lees — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:12:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?
Poster: Philip Lees
Post title: Other

Plumbing.

Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now? | Trustment and Clear Communication!

Oscar Núñez Alfaro — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:16:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?
Poster: Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Post title: Trustment and Clear Communication!

I think that it is always important to establish a great relationship with clients where they can trust and believe in our services, language skills, and values.

Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now? | Specialize, specialize, specialize!

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:21:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Specialize, specialize, specialize!

Specialize in uniquely human abilities and skills...

[Edited at 2026-01-18 13:22 GMT]

Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now? | Translators are not typists

Harishankar Shahi — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:20:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?
Poster: Harishankar Shahi
Post title: Translators are not typists

LSPs must put a rate threshold for the clients’ because with AI propaganda, if propaganda not a correct choice, then hype or over-speculation, client fail to understand how inaccurate and inadequate output could be. And client, in case of a corporation and LSP may not be a lingual expert themselves. So, abrupt pricing not only can kill the work but also make good workers to leave the industry who has spent years in it. Low level reviewers has always been a problem and now this rate’s dog fight is making survival very difficult.

And this is very painful for that language where not associations or organizations to protect, and led by non-natives.

Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?

ProZ.com Staff — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:10:04 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What’s the single most important skill for LSPs to invest in right now?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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